Types of feedback to optimise performance
I can identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.
Types of feedback to optimise performance
I can identify and use different types of feedback to improve performance.
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Key learning points
- Intrinsic feedback comes from the performer's own senses and feelings.
- Extrinsic feedback comes from external sources like coaches or peers.
- Concurrent feeback is given during the performance.
- Terminal feedback is given at the end of a performance.
- Effective feedback depends on multiple situational factors.
Keywords
Feedback - information received during or after a performance about the performance
Intrinsic feedback - information received from the performer's senses
Extrinsic feedback - information received from outside of the performer, e.g. from a coach
Concurrent feedback - feedback provided during a performance
Terminal feedback - feedback provided after a performance
Common misconception
Types of feedback are often confused with types of guidance from the previous lesson.
Ensure students can differentiate between guidance being information needed to understand how to perform a skill, and feedback being information about how well it is being performed.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.When a teacher writes suggestions on your work about how you might improve it, we say that they are giving you ...
Q2.Which type of guidance is often combined with verbal guidance to deliver a demonstration to a group of learners?
Q3.The words exit, exhale and export all begin with the prefix ex-. What do these words have in common?
Q4.Where might the following receive feedback from?
the audience clapping
the referee
the child's parents/guardians encouraging them
themselves
Q5.Which of these would best define feedback?
Q6.Guidance which involves a coach supporting the learner's movement physically with their hands is called guidance.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of the following are types of feedback?
Q2.Match the keyword to the definition.
information received from the performer's senses
information received from outside of the performer e.g. from a coach
feedback provided during a performance
feedback provided after a performance
Q3.Which of the following might be sources of extrinsic feedback?
Q4.Match the statements.
stopping yourself from losing balance on your bicycle
your coach giving you split times as you run the 5000m
you think back over your performance later that day by yourself
you and your teammates discuss your previous performance during dinner